I'm still reading The Recruit. I'm at the part where Kenneth Sutherland has just found out that the woman he'd "swivved" the night before is actually the woman The Bruce wants him to marry. Needless to say he's not very happy about her omission of who she is. Countess Mary Atholl doesn't want another husband since the one who was executed by Edward I didn't pay much attention to her any way and like Sutherland liked the accolades he receives from "fans" of his prois at the Highland Games. Lady Mary might consider remarriage if the man she marries isn't full of himself and more likely to find other bed partners than come home to her, something her former husband had done. But in the time period that the book takes place ladies of quality didn't have much of a choice as to remaining single or being married. Either they married who the monarch wanted or ended up in a convent. Widows and women in general have it so much better in modern times and truly, I think, women take our freedom to do as we wish for granted.
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| Al Moore |
The paper doll on offer today matches the date it was published back in 1941: November 9th. Imagine, a month later on December 7, almost exactly a month later, the attack on Pearl Harbor would take place. The costumes should fit properly. Again, this was from a CD bought by a seller on Ebay and is a photo of the the paper doll. Not a bad one to be sure. I would like to redraw it, re color it so that it comes out much sharper. Or at least do my own version of it. Brenda Starr paper dolls are very hard to come by; the price always going up to astronomical amounts when they are offered on Ebay. I don't have any actual Brenda's from the newspapers in my collection. I do have some paper doll books that have paper dolls that had been published in the Sunday papers and reprinted in black and white in the paper doll book.
'Til next time..... ALOHA
